Abstract ........................................................ 5
Introduction .................................................... 6
Methods ......................................................... 7
List of Localities .............................................. 7
Geologic Description ............................................ 9
Iridium Analysis ............................................... 25
Biostratigraphic Analysis ...................................... 33
Stratigraphic Relationships .................................... 40
Origin of the Pinna Layer ...................................... 41
Origin of the Basal Hornerstown Formation ...................... 43
Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary ................................... 44
Ammonite Ecology ............................................... 47
Ammonites at the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary .................. 49
Systematic Paleontology ........................................ 55
Conventions .................................................. 55
Eutrephoceras Hyatt, 1894 .................................... 55
Eutrephoceras dekayi (Morton, 1834) .......................... 55
Pachydiscus Zittel, 1884 ..................................... 57
Pachydiscus (Neodesmoceras) mokotibensis Collignon, 1952 ..... 58
Sphenodiscus Meek, 1871 ...................................... 58
Sphenodiscus lobatus (Tuomey, 1856) .......................... 58
Eubaculites Spath, 1926 ...................................... 64
Eubaculites carinatus (Morton, 1834) ......................... 64
Eubaculites latecarinatus (Brunnschweiler, 1966) ............. 72
Discoscaphites Meek, 1871 .................................... 76
Discoscaphites iris (Conrad, 1858) ........................... 82
Discoscaphites sphaeroidalis Kennedy and Cobban, 2000 ........ 92
Discoscaphites minardi Landman et al., 2004a ................ 100
Discoscaphites gulosus (Morton, 1834) ....................... 106
Discoscaphites jerseyensis, n.sp ............................ 109
Aptychi (lower jaws) ........................................ 110
Acknowledgments ............................................... 110
References .................................................... 111
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